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• French hiker missing in Italy nine days found dead

  18-08-2019 23:57 via news.yahoo.com
  The body of a French hiker who disappeared nine days ago south of Naples was found Sunday, local Italian authorities said."The body of Simon Gautier has been found a short while ago," the authorities in Sapri, near Belvedere di Ciolandre where the 27-year-old hiker was found dead.Gautier called for help on August 9, saying he had fallen down a cliff and broken both legs, but was unable to give his location other than "in the middle of nowhere, on the coast".
  
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• Far-right and antifa groups both claim victory at Portland

  18-08-2019 23:55 via news.yahoo.com
  With both the left and the right declaring victory following a long-hyped rally that had Portland, Oregon, on edge it seems the liberal city will continue to be a flashpoint in an increasingly divided country.City officials were mostly relieved that a downtown gathering Saturday of more than 1,000 far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators wasn't as violent as feared."I'm grateful this was largely a peaceful event," Mayor Ted Wheeler said.
  
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• FEC chairwoman calls out Trump over New Hampshire voter fraud claims

  18-08-2019 23:47 via news.yahoo.com
  "To put it in terms a former casino operator would understand: There comes a time when you need to lay your cards on the table or fold," Weintraub wrote.
  
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• Trump has used Israel for political points -- and there may be consequences

  18-08-2019 23:38 via cnn.com
  President Trump has never shied away from foreign election interference -- he's professed his willingness to accept dirt from foreign countriesandstayed silent when despots like Kim Jong Un criticize his political rivals.
  
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• Samantha Vinograd: Trump has used Israel for political points, and there may be consequences

  18-08-2019 23:38 via cnn.com
  President Trump has never shied away from foreign election interference -- he's professed his willingness to accept dirt from foreign countriesandstayed silent when despots like Kim Jong Un criticize his political rivals.
  
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• 'Fox is different': Donald Trump slams Fox News, questions favored network's poll

  18-08-2019 23:37 via news.yahoo.com
  Donald Trump blasted Fox News, questioning what has long been a favored network for the president after a recent poll found his approval rating slipping.
  
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• Trump confirms he is considering attempt to buy Greenland

  18-08-2019 23:27 via theguardian.com
  President says bid would be ‘essentially a real estate deal’Danish semi-autonomous territory has said it is not for sale
  Donald Trump has confirmed he is considering an attempt to buy Greenland for strategic reasons, though he said the idea is “not No1 on the burner”. Related: 'Friends, you're going to love Greenland. I was there on 9/11' | Lawrence Douglas and Nancy PickContinue reading...
  
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• Hundreds answer husband's viral post to attend funeral of El Paso mass shooting victim

  18-08-2019 23:22 via news.yahoo.com
  Margie Reckard, one of 22 killed in the El Paso Walmart mass shooting, was honored by more than a thousand people.
  
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• 13 Arrested as Far-Right Rally Clashes With Counter-Demonstrators in Downtown Portland

  18-08-2019 23:17 via news.yahoo.com
  Hundreds of far-right protesters and anti-fascist counter-demonstrators swarmed downtown Portland, Oregon, on Saturday for a long-hyped rally that attracted President Donald Trump’s attention and resulted in at least 13 arrests.
  
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• The Latest: Families bury their dead after wedding attack

  18-08-2019 23:12 via news.yahoo.com
  The United States envoy who is negotiating with the Taliban to end the war in Afghanistan says the peace process needs to be accelerated in the wake of a deadly attack on a wedding in the capital, which was claimed by the local Islamic State affiliate.Zalmay Khalilzad said in a Twitter post Sunday that success in the peace process — one that includes the Taliban talking with the Afghan government and other Afghans — will put the country in a "much stronger" position to defeat the IS
  
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• Cathay Remains Under Scrutiny After CEO Takes Fall for Protests

  18-08-2019 23:00 via news.yahoo.com
  (Bloomberg) -- Cathay Pacific Airways Ltd. is counting on the resignation of its British chief executive officer, Rupert Hogg, to move beyond the tumult that saw its employees’ participation in the Hong Kong protests draw the ire of Beijing. But will it be enough?Incoming CEO Augustus Tang has the delicate task of continuing to placate China, an increasingly important market for the 72-year-old airline, while also minimizing the fallout from staff, customers and investors as the unrest in
  
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• Hundreds of thousands march for democracy in latest Hong Kong protest against China

  18-08-2019 22:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Heavy rain failed to keep hundreds of thousands of protesters from swarming Hong Kong streets Sunday to rally against the Beijing government.
  
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• Apple CEO warns Trump about China tariffs, Samsung competition

  18-08-2019 22:43 via news.yahoo.com
  U.S. President Donald Trump said on Sunday that he has spoken with Apple Inc's Chief Executive Tim Cook about the impact of U.S. tariffs on Chinese imports as well as competition from South Korean company Samsung Electronics Co Ltd.Trump said Cook "made a good case" that tariffs could hurt Apple given that Samsung's products would not be subject to those same tariffs.
  
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• Mickelson nearly misses tee time after lightning strikes hotel and sparks fire

  18-08-2019 22:42 via cnn.com
  Golf great Phil Mickelson has been finding it a struggle on the course in recent weeks so could have done without a freak occurrence which left his participation in the final round of the BMW Championship at Medinah in some doubt.
  
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• Tumultuous week for markets and omens of recession don't worry Trump advisers 'at all'

  18-08-2019 22:35 via cnn.com
  Two top White House economic advisers on Sunday brushed off growing fears of a brewing global recession, instead boasting about the state of the US economy under President Donald Trump.
  
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• Massachusetts RMV suspends 869 more drivers two months after deadly N.H. motorcycle crash

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  The Massachusetts RMV has now suspended more than 2,400 drivers for out-of-state violations that weren't processed. More are likely.
  
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• Hong Kong protesters flood city streets for largest rally in weeks

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A sea of democracy activists flooded the streets of Hong Kong Sunday under torrential rains in a peaceful demonstration to city leaders that their movement still draws wide public support, despite mounting violence and increasingly stark warnings from Beijing. Hundreds of thousands of umbrella-carrying protesters poured across the heart of Hong Kong island, defying both the downpour and a police order not to march from a park where they had gathered earlier for a rally. Weeks of demonstrations h
  
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• Drug dealer spared jail after telling judge his baldness had ruined his life

  18-08-2019 22:20 via news.yahoo.com
  A judge spared a drug dealer from jail after hearing his alopecia had led to a life of ridicule and that selling drugs was a way of making friends. Cameron Bridges started selling drugs after being frozen out by his peers for much of his school life and to support his £150 a day cocaine habit. Bridges, of Polperro, Cornwall, admitted possession of cocaine, ketamine and cannabis with intent to supply, as well as possession charges and assaulting an emergency worker. Truro Crown Court h
  
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• White House economic adviser: 'I sure don't see a recession'

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  White House economic adviser Larry Kudlow dismissed fears about a possible recession after a roller-coaster week for stocks.
  
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• Tons of pot found in truck full of jalapeno peppers in California, Border Patrol says

  18-08-2019 22:03 via news.yahoo.com
  A U.S. Customs and Border Protection dog picked up on something strange Thursday night in a tractor-trailer shipment of jalapeno peppers at a San Diego crossing, the agency says in a release.
  
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• Yuba City man dies in apparent suicide in standoff after police answer assault call

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  A 29-year-old man died from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound in his Yuba City apartment during a standoff with police on Friday, according to a Yuba City police press release.
  
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• Nancy Pelosi warns cuts in foreign aid could jeopardize budget deal

  18-08-2019 21:55 via news.yahoo.com
  In a letter to Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, Pelosi warned that such a package could be approved only by Congress.
  
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• Leaked UK memos warn of food, drug shortages in Brexit chaos

  18-08-2019 21:54 via news.yahoo.com
  Secret British government documents have warned of serious disruptions across the country in the event that the U.K. leaves the European Union without a trade deal on Oct. 31, according to a report.The Sunday Times newspaper published what it said was what the British government expects in the case of a sudden, "no-deal" Brexit.Although the grim scenarios reportedly outlined in the government documents have long been floated by academics and economists, they've been repeatedly dismissed as scare
  
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• Migrants jump off rescue boat to try to reach Italian island

  18-08-2019 21:48 via news.yahoo.com
  Several migrants jumped into the sea from a Spanish rescue boat Sunday in a thwarted bid to reach shore in Italy, where the government's hard-line interior minister, Matteo Salvini, has refused to let the 107 passengers disembark."We have been warning for days, desperation has its limits," said Open Arms founder Oscar Camps, who released a video showing four migrants wearing orange life vests swimming toward Lampedusa island.In the evening, Open Arms urgently requested permission to enter Lamped
  
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• Mexico City assesses monument damage after anti-rape march

  18-08-2019 21:47 via news.yahoo.com
  Workers erected a wooden wall around Mexico City's iconic Angel of Independence monument Saturday after feminists defaced it with graffiti during a raucous protest over a string of alleged rapes by police.The deputy director of artistic patrimony at the National Fine Arts Institute, Dolores Martínez, said at the base of the statue that officials were assessing the damage to the Angel and other points in the capital that protesters attacked.Protesters wrote phrases like "They don't take ca
  
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• Former NFL star Cedric Benson, 36, dies in motorcycle crash

  18-08-2019 21:21 via cnn.com
  Famed running back Cedric Benson, who soared to stardom as a Texas Longhorn "legend," died Saturday night. He was 36 years old.
  
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• Nearly 4 tons of weed discovered inside shipment of jalapeños

  18-08-2019 21:16 via cnn.com
  A shipment of jalapeños from Mexico to the US proved to be carrying more than just a spicy kick when Border Patrol agents found nearly 4 tons of marijuana hidden in the cargo.
  
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• He got his first haircut in 15 years so he could join the Army

  18-08-2019 21:13 via cnn.com
  Superlong hair, or serving his country?
  
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• San Francisco homeless man accused of attacking woman wearing ankle monitor

  18-08-2019 21:03 via news.yahoo.com
  ABC7 News has confirmed that the man accused of attacking a woman outside her San Francisco apartment building has been fitted with an electronic monitor.
  
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• At least 6 teens shot at 'instant house party' organized on Snapchat

  18-08-2019 20:46 via cnn.com
  An impromptu house party devolved into chaos when a verbal dispute led to the shootings of at least six teenagers.
  
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• Gibraltar rejects US pressure, says Iranian oil tanker free to go

  18-08-2019 20:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Gibraltar rejected a U.S. request to continue holding an Iranian supertanker detained on suspicion of attempting to breach global sanctions on Syria.
  
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• 22-month-old girl dies after being left inside a hot car

  18-08-2019 20:41 via cnn.com
  A 22-month-old girl has died after she was found unresponsive in a van outside a commuter rail station in Lindenwold, New Jersey, prosecutors said.
  
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• 7 shot after random Snapchat invites to ‘instant house party,’ Texas cops say

  18-08-2019 20:32 via news.yahoo.com
  An “instant party” in Texas ended with a car chase and several people shot, police say.
  
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• The Israeli spacecraft that crashed on the moon spilled microscopic 'water bears' that can live in space

  18-08-2019 20:24 via news.yahoo.com
  Beresheet spilled tardigrades, invisible tiny critters that are capable of living in extreme conditions ⁠— including space.
  
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• Kuwait says emir recovered from 'setback'

  18-08-2019 20:06 via news.yahoo.com
  Kuwaiti state media on Sunday reported Emir Sheikh Sabah al-Ahmad Al-Sabah had "recovered", shortly after Iran's foreign minister indicated that the 90-year-old was unwell.The emir "has recovered from a setback and is in good health now", Kuwait's official news agency KUNA said, citing a palace statement, without specifying the nature of the "setback".Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had earlier on Sunday wished Sheikh Sabah a "speedy recovery" after talking with the Gulf state's of
  
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• Nazi-era Porsche fails to sell after auction snafu

  18-08-2019 20:05 via cnn.com
  A bulbous race car from the 1930s was expected to be the most expensive car with the Porsche name ever sold at auction.But the sale was marred by a confusing mix-up on the auction stage.
  
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• Duke of York pictured inside mansion of convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein

  18-08-2019 19:55 via news.yahoo.com
  Peering out from behind the 15ft-high solid oak door Prince Andrew is seen to catch himself and check if anyone is watching as he waves goodbye to an attractive brunette. And it may be little surprise that he was concerned that someone might spot him in the doorway of the £63million Manhattan mansion, as it belonged to convicted paedophile Jeffrey Epstein. A video of the encounter emerged as the Duke of York faced a growing list of questions over this association with the financier wh
  
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• 'That is ridiculous': Andrew Gillum rips Rick Santorum for claiming guns aren't 'problem' in mass shootings

  18-08-2019 19:42 via news.yahoo.com
  Former Tallahassee, Fla., Mayor Andrew Gillum slammed former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum's stance on gun control as “ridiculous” for saying guns are not the “problem” in mass shootings.
  
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• Sacramento files lawsuit to ban 7 men from business district

  18-08-2019 19:40 via news.yahoo.com
  The city of Sacramento has filed an unusual lawsuit to ban seven men considered to be a "public nuisance" from a popular business corridor.The lawsuit alleges the men are "drug users, trespassers, thieves ... and violent criminals" who have illegal weapons and ammunition and have forced police to dedicate an "excessive amount" of resources to the Broadway corridor.City Attorney Susana Alcala Wood filed the suit Aug. 9 in Sacramento Superior Court, according to a copy posted online by The Sacrame
  
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• Republican faces new Texas reality: He has to actually try to win reelection

  18-08-2019 19:37 via cnn.com
  Rep. Michael McCaul does not have to be here, at Carl's BBQ on the side of a highway, in a wood-paneled backroom, seated at a bare table in front of a stuffed, life-size buck whose antlers hold a sign saying, "NEVER moon a werewolf."
  
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• Hours-old baby abandoned in Maryland woods found by passerby, hospitalized in stable condition

  18-08-2019 19:31 via news.yahoo.com
  The infant was left in a wooded area in suburban Washington on a 90-degree day without so much as a diaper, according to police.
  
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• 'Jihadi Jack' stripped of UK citizenship

  18-08-2019 19:28 via cnn.com
  ISIS suspect Jack Letts has been stripped of his British citizenship, according to Canadian officials.
  
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• Woman in pain goes to hospital, births 3 babies moments later

  18-08-2019 19:23 via cnn.com
  A South Dakota mom went to a hospital for pain she thought was caused by kidney stones. Turns out, the pain was caused by the fact that she was in labor with triplets. CNN affiliate network KOTA reports.
  
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• Mom thought she had kidney stones, gave birth to triplets

  18-08-2019 19:23 via cnn.com
  A South Dakota mom went to a hospital for pain she thought was caused by kidney stones. Turns out, the pain was caused by the fact that she was in labor with triplets. CNN affiliate network KOTA reports.
  
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• Dick Cheney to appear at Trump 2020 fundraiser as Republican establishment bows to president

  18-08-2019 19:11 via news.yahoo.com
  Former vice president Dick Cheney will appear at a fundraiser for Donald Trump’s 2020 campaign, according to an invitation for the event, in a sign that the Republican establishment will publicly back his re-election bid.Mr Trump won the Republican nomination in 2016 as an outsider and has often clashed with senior figures in the party, such as Mitt Romney and the late John McCain.However, an invitation to a luncheon fundraiser in Jackson, Wyoming, shows Mr Cheney will appear alongside Iva
  
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• Russian health workers say they weren't warned patients were coming from nuclear accident site

  18-08-2019 19:01 via feeds.foxnews.com
  A mysterious and deadly explosion earlier this month at a naval weapons testing range in northwestern Russia has spawned numerous questions amid changing and conflicting information from authorities, including from health workers who treated those injured in the blast that say they weren't informed about potential radiation risk.
  
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• Farmers hit hard by trade war, but WH insists they have Trump's back

  18-08-2019 19:00 via cnn.com
  White House trade adviser Peter Navarro defended President Donald Trump's commitment to American farmers on Sunday, as some farmers say the US trade war with China directly hurts them.
  
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• Gators are climbing fences and swimming across roads in Florida

  18-08-2019 18:55 via cnn.com
  Most people know alligators get just about everywhere in Florida, but now they've really leveled up.
  
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• End violence against female aid workers | Letter

  18-08-2019 18:46 via theguardian.com
  Rosalind Crowther of CARE International on the need to protect humanitarians
  Around the world, humanitarian aid workers operate in dangerous and difficult environments and here in South Sudan we know that many aid workers and peacekeepers have lost their lives while trying to protect and assist South Sudanese communities.Among them have been women who play a vital role in every aspect of crisis response, and particularly in preventing, responding to, and working with survivors of gender-based vi
  
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• Sudan's former dictator Omar al-Bashir due in court for corruption trial

  18-08-2019 18:28 via news.yahoo.com
  Omar al-Bashir, the ousted former president of Sudan, is expected to stand in court on Monday for the first stage of a corruption trial which could see him jailed for many years. Bashir took power in a 1989 coup but was deposed in April after mass protests and security forces deciding to withdraw support for his brutal regime, which was behind an alleged genocidal campaign in the Darfur region. The 75-year-old former dictator is in prison awaiting the trail, where he faces allegations of po
  
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